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The art of fiction / R.F. Dietrich, Roger H. Sundell.
LIBRA - Special PZ1.D555 Ar 1978
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dietrich, Richard F., 1936- compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories.
- Short story.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Russel, Myra (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, 458 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1978]
- Contents:
- Introduction : the Nature of fiction
- A & P / John Updike
- Homage to the San Francisco YMCA / Richard Brautigan
- The Celestial omnibus / E.M. Forster
- The Real thing / Henry James
- I. The Substance of fiction : subject and theme
- The Use of force / William Carlos Williams
- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne
- A Hunger artist / Franz Kafka
- Unready to wear / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- II. The Characters of fiction : protangonist, antagonist, and foil
- Everything that rises must converge / Flannery O'Connor
- The Chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck
- Petrified man / Eudora Welty
- A Poetics for bullies / Stanley Elkin.
- III. The Structures of fiction : plot and archetype
- Barn burning / William Faulkner
- The Bride comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane
- Night-sea journey / John Barth
- Unlighted lamps / Sherwood Anderson
- IV. The Voices of fiction : author and narrator
- Black is my favorite color / Barnard Malamud
- Clay / James Joyce
- How I contemplated the world from the Detroit House of Correction and began my life over again / Joyce Carol Oates
- V. The Designs of fiction : diction, image and symbol
- A Clean well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway
- The Rocking-horse winner / D.H. Lawrence
- How beautiful with shoes / Wilbur Daniel Steele
- A Matter of vocabulary / James Alan McPherson.
- VI. The Experiences of fiction : the whole story
- The Cask of Amontillado / Edgar Allan Poe
- Frog troucin' contest / Jesse Stuart
- The Kiss / Anton Chekhov
- The Colonel's lady / W. Somerset Maugham
- Winter dreams / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- King of the bingo game / Ralph Ellison
- The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges
- I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen
- The Scream on fifty-seventh street / Hortense Calisher
- A Father-to-be / Saul Bellow
- A Tree, a rock, a cloud / Carson McCullers
- The Housebreaker of Shady Hill / John Cheever
- A Pedestrian accident / Robert Coover
- And when I die be sure and let me know / Thomas Abrams
- The Lesson / Toni Cade Bambara
- Solipists / Fredric Brown.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has signature of Myra Russel.
- ISBN:
- 0030392217
- 9780030392214
- OCLC:
- 3311459
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